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Denver Mountain Parks has won a $130,000 grant from the federal government's Wildland Urban Interface Grant Program to remove ladder fuels and thin forest on 120 acres of 549-acre Cub Creek Park south of Evergreen.

The general working area is the parkland between Brook Forest Road and Highway 73. Work is not expected to begin until summer 2012.

The target area is mostly ponderosa pine, including a lot of small and large trees that are very tightly spaced and in danger of insect infestation and wildfire.

The postal-carrier annex at 1222 Bergen Parkway across from the King Soopers shopping center has been closed abruptly as a cost-saving measure. Some 25 employees were reassigned to the main Evergreen post office on Evergreen Parkway and Bryant Drive.

Local mail will continue to be delivered six days a week as usual.

The change means that customers will have to call the main post office at 303-679-9861 if they have trouble with mail delivery, instead of the previous phone number (303-670-0213), which was disconnected as of Saturday, Aug. 13.

After four years as Evergreen’s fire chief, Garry DeJong is preparing to start a new job in Idaho, as questions continue to surround the reasons for his decision to leave — a move that was not entirely his idea.

During the regular monthly meeting of the Evergreen Fire Protection District board on Aug. 9, DeJong officially announced his resignation and his new appointment as fire chief in Lewiston, Idaho.

Pornographic images may soon be blocked from computers in Jefferson County public libraries, though the textual content of websites such as those of Playboy and Penthouse may not.
At a library study session Aug. 11, board members weighed several options in regulating Internet content, including doing nothing at all. Options include blocking only images considered pornographic or blocking pornographic websites in their entirety.
Though library staff and board members seemed to favor filtering images, that process would have several flaws.

A 17-year-old from Kenosha, Wis., was airlifted in a Flight for Life helicopter to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood after taking a 25-foot fall from a cliff at Maxwell Falls on Tuesday afternoon.

The teen was choppered out at the upper Maxwell Falls trailhead on Brook Forest Road about 5 miles west of Highway 73 at 3:44 p.m. A companion reached the road and called 911 at 2:18 p.m., according to Mark Techmeyer, Jeffco sheriff’s spokesman.

After four years as chief of Evergreen Fire/Rescue, Garry DeJong is leaving to become fire chief of the Lewiston Fire Department in Lewiston, Idaho. His last day will be Oct. 7, when his current contract ends.

Members of the Evergreen Fire Protection District board told the fire chief in June that his services were no longer needed and that they wanted to take the department in another direction, DeJong said.

The idea of hiring a district manager instead of a new fire chief was mentioned, DeJong said.

The south end of Evergreen Lake is getting a much-needed makeover this summer, thanks to a crew from the Mile High Youth Corps armed with shovels, axes and wheelbarrows.

The crew of about 12 young people ages 16 to 25 is in the area for about three weeks, from July 25 to Aug. 11, restoring the south-side trail after wear and tear from a constant stream of mountain bikers, dog walkers and hikers.